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To: dighton

I always thought that word meant something else. ;D

It does in Yiddish, anyway...


436 posted on 04/28/2006 4:32:06 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: hellinahandcart
Yiddish and German are closely related, as are the German schmuck (ornament) and Yiddish . . . . ornament of a different sort.
437 posted on 04/28/2006 4:36:01 PM PDT by dighton
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